I-Team: Private E-Mails Reveal Conversation On O'Malley Rumor (NCPAC-MD4Bush)

To: ILLUMINATI_216

Today's Sun has a similar article, by "A Sun Staff Writer":

Online postings add angle to Steffen flap
MD4BUSH writer appears to bait ex-Ehrlich aide

Computer messages revealed yesterday show another side to postings on a conservative Web site that sparked a firestorm of accusations between Democrats and Republicans and the resignation of longtime gubernatorial aide Joseph F. Steffen.

Steffen was forced to resign by Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. after acknowledging to a reporter that he had written online, under the computer pseudonym "NCPAC," about spreading rumors on the conduct of Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley.

Steffen made the comments in exchanges with someone using the name MD4BUSH, whose identity remains a mystery. After the controversy began, MD4BUSH posted exchanges with Steffen on the Web site www.FreeRepublic.com and underlined some of Steffen's responses for emphasis.

But other parts of the online exchanges, reported yesterday by WBAL-TV and posted on the station's Web site, appear to show that MD4BUSH prodded Steffen into talking about the rumors, and that at one point Steffen advised against attacking O'Malley's personal life.

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41 posted on 04/21/2005 11:10:25 AM PDT by conservative in nyc

Although WBAL and the Baltimore Sun may not have had both sides of the NCPAC/MD4Bush Freepmails, the Washington Post has both sides of the conversation. One of MD4Bush's "my dentist" questions were printed in a February 11 article.

42 posted on 04/21/2005 11:33:47 AM PDT by conservative in nyc

To: ILLUMINATI_216

Check out the sun's board at www.baltimoresun2.com/talk
I am sure MD4Bush is posting their under a new name. There are a lot of suspects.

43 posted on 04/21/2005 11:45:24 AM PDT by Bawlmerboy

To: conservative in nyc

Thanks! I never would have seen this and this is totally fascinating stuff! please keep pinging me. Waiting to see the results in the end. Ha ha.

44 posted on 04/21/2005 12:23:55 PM PDT by Kay

To: conservative in nyc; maica; ColdSpringGirl

at one point Steffen advised against attacking O'Malley's personal life.

This actually seems to be the news in the article. I guess it should have been the lead.

45 posted on 04/21/2005 7:04:39 PM PDT by Freee-dame

To: ILLUMINATI_216

You should try WITH at 1230 in Baltimore. Good shows around the clock and the news every half hour is refreshingly different.

46 posted on 04/21/2005 7:15:46 PM PDT by maica

To: NonValueAdded

Geeze, FR has a privacy policy with its members. Unless Jim is served he can not ethically make public md4bush's ID.

Think about it - you could be next.

47 posted on 04/22/2005 2:11:57 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother ( We need a few more Marines like Lt. Gen. James Mattis)

To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

If I did what MD4BUSH did, then I would deserve to be next. I see nothing in the privacy policy that allows the forum to be used for RAT political attacks. Ethics do not include covering for liars and cheats. That is what the newsies need to learn. Their continued silence makes them complicit. Call it the Bob Holtzman rule.

48 posted on 04/22/2005 5:18:51 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (The murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo - NOT IN OUR NAME)

To: anniegetyourgun

By looking at the name MD4BUSH and reading his screed, I've determined that it's a Maryland resident, 4 years old, and he chose "BUSH" either to throw us off or because MD4Troll was already taken. Do with it what you will.

49 posted on 04/22/2005 9:55:33 AM PDT by Jaysun (Why can't we list "the government" as a dependent on our taxes?)

Barbara Miluski IS a lesbian.

50 posted on 04/27/2005 7:39:25 AM PDT by doberville (Angels can fly when they take themselves lightly)

To: anniegetyourgun

These e-mails couldn't be to private if everyone knows what's in them. And it sounds so much like a nosey news station, etc. to do just that. Snoop.

51 posted on 04/30/2005 9:08:44 AM PDT by freekitty

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